tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944569789398499530.post5643692023589672743..comments2016-03-15T08:09:13.304-04:00Comments on The 'C' Influence: SP:11 1897 Airships, and the Little Fellow in the Aurora, Texas CemetaryRick Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05147795123873989623noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944569789398499530.post-915739080789700302010-11-13T12:48:36.768-05:002010-11-13T12:48:36.768-05:00I don&#39;t live terribly far from Aurora, and whi...I don&#39;t live terribly far from Aurora, and while I&#39;m not too familiar with that immediate area, I *know* Small Town, Texas, USA, very well.<br /><br />Tribalism runs deep. Real deep. The cultural resistance to opening up to outsiders - like, say, condescending, pointy-headed <i>Yankees</i> with little or no regard for the people who live in the region - isn&#39;t exactly unreasonable.<br /><br />UFO stigma remains very real, and stigma in a small town is, like everything in a small town, amplified considerably. Cultural influences on this case cannot be overstated and should be considered very, very carefully. You can bet locals have some interesting stories about the researchers who have periodically visited Aurora for the last several decades. I doubt they reflect well on ufology, much less human behavior, generally. If I ever get up that way, I&#39;ll let you all know.<br /><br />* * * * *<br /><br />Great post. I&#39;d like to write more, but I&#39;m flat on back post lumbar fusion. Keep up the great work here.Arvin Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01227311488775593004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944569789398499530.post-39177701445256758752010-11-10T18:17:09.870-05:002010-11-10T18:17:09.870-05:00The airship flap in of itself is a fascinating sub...The airship flap in of itself is a fascinating subject. My understanding is that there was a photograph taken in it&#39;s flight over Chicago that was subsequently lost. One interests is early industrial technology, and I looked over various forms of motive power and the most likely being reciprocating steam generated by caustic soda, coal or wood, and the heavy weights involved with the boiler, cylinders as well as the enormous amount of fuel, water, it&#39;s short range, the lack of a good spark arrestor, the weight of the vessel itself ( wood being combustible) makes this a flying brick, regardless of the steam punk visions some may have. One aspect that is interesting is the &quot;crew&quot; coming down for resupply rather than the ship itself landing. They would have been running out of water long before they used up the fuel.Short cycle battery technology was in it&#39;s infancy and there would be nowhere to recharge them. To lift all this would have made for one enormous, unwieldy balloon, let alone a fabric coating technology that would have to be flameproof. All of this is well and good but I think an interesting point in this was, that in less than two decades, this craft flew in a much more practical form due to the leaps in technology, as a hydrogen filled Zeppelin outfitted with outboard motors. The concept in 1897 was there, but not the technology, and yet there it is, or was..a mimic of expectations and equally what was anticipated in 1897..which appears to be a clue, a hint left hidden in plain sight translated to an image of an advanced aerial vehicle transcribed and produced tailor made by their contemporary envisioning of leading edge possibilities..which then came true later. It&#39;s like a space time hybrid of the present and future transposed to an &quot;impossible hybrid&quot; much like the stream styled art deco saucers of the 40 and 50&#39;s ferociously glowing with assumed future application of nuclear power to be replaced by dark, delta winged craft based on a gravity wave powered B1 hybrid of the potential in both the present and future as a projection. What nest?<br />Best Wishes<br />Bruce DBruce Duensinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06770861553045757360noreply@blogger.com